Monoclonal antibodies raised against human acetylcholine receptor bind to all five subunits of the fetal isoform

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 112-120

  Jacobson, Leslie ^a   Beeson, David ^a   Tzartos, Socrates ^b   Vincent, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Hybrid receptors; Monoclonal antibody; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BUNGAROTOXINS; EPITOPES; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; ISOMERISM; MICE; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TITRIMETRY; TORPEDO;

EID: 0033052980     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5728(99)00086-7     Document Type: Article

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